An online home to showcase and discuss interesting articles, interviews and other media about actors associated with all the various "Star Trek" television shows and movies. I also write on equal rights, social justice issues, INFJ-isms, film & television production, urban homesteading and whatever blows up my skirt. Figuratively speaking.
In addition, I'm working on setting up a new urban homesteading blog - stay tuned.

Friday, September 27, 2013

Fall Gardening

I got motivated today. I cleaned up the six 5-gallon buckets I grew garlic in this past year, put in new soil and compost and re-planted new types of garlic. Actually, two are types I planted last fall. One had a dozen loose cloves and one had very tight cloves. Unfortunately, I lost the stupid piece of paper where I wrote down what types were growing in which container. So, I have no idea what these two types actually are - they grew best of the six types I planted (though I suspect one is Killarney Red). The others didn't do as well, and we are eating them instead of planting them. The other two types I am growing are garlic from Champoeg (http://www.oregonstateparks.org/index.cfm?do=parkPage.dsp_parkPage&parkId=79), and another locally grown type called Keith's Purple from Nettle's Edge Farm here in Eugene. The one from Champoeg is a smaller garlic, hardneck, with white wrappers. The Keith's Purple is a truly stunning garlic - it has beautiful purple wrappers and it's huge. I look forward to seeing how these grow. Someday if I ever get my own place, I hope to grow a dozen types of garlic for the farmers market and local grocery stores.

I still have to get to the 12 x 12 garden bed and remove the old chard and cilantro. I also will pull up the potatoes soon and see how it went. I planted La Ratte fingerlings and Yukon Gold's.

I have three other projects. I have a rolling compost bin and I think I've found a source for horse manure to add to the bin, plus I'd like to add it to my second currently fallow 12 x 12 bed and sheet mulch it for next year. The last project is to build some cold frames out front of my neighbor's apartment facing the south parking lot. I am planning on using urbanite (recycled broken up sidewalk pieces) and re-purposed window frames. I am hoping to keep growing Giant Winter Spinach, Vulcan Chard and White Russian Kale. I may also try to grow some winter lettuce, but I may be out of room. As I've never done this before, it will be an experiment

(P.S. These pictures are not mine, I am borrowing them. Wish they were mine, but I forgot to take pix before I replanted/planted all the garlic!)

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About Me

I am a single mom raising a special needs child while working and trying to figure out life. Oh, and I worked on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Star Trek: First Contact once upon a time (and some other shows and movies). I am a preschool teacher, voracious reader, mosaic artist, urban homesteader, a poet and a thinker. I am an unapologetic do-gooder with delusions of reality; a kitchen witch who raises children and vegetables and who wants to save the world. All of these words describe everything and nothing about me. I am a catalyst. Boldly go.